Q1.
I. You will listen to four people talk about the places they like to travel to. As you listen, write the speaker number for the two pictures given. (Transcript for teacher on page 260)
Picture 1: a trekker in a green tracksuit and cap, walking with a backpack while speaking into a phone mounted on a selfie stick.
Picture 2: a climber in red, helmeted and roped, scaling a steep rock face.
1. Speaker No. ____ 2. Speaker No. ____
Answer
1. Speaker No. 4 2. Speaker No. 2
| Picture | What it shows | Speaker | The words that decide it (transcript, page 260) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A person walking with a backpack, filming himself on a phone fixed to a stick | Speaker 4 | “As a travel vlogger, exploring these biodiverse areas allows me to share the wonders of nature with my audience. My recent trip was to the Sundarbans and my subscribers loved the videos I had uploaded.” Only one speaker records himself for an audience. |
| 2 | A climber roped to a steep rock face | Speaker 2 | “Adventures thrill me, and so, I think there’s no place better than the mountains for this… the mountains are my playground, where I push my limits and embrace the adventurous side of life.” |
Why the other two speakers are eliminated: Speaker 1 is “an elderly man” who visits “serene riversides” to “reflect, meditate, and find inner harmony” — neither picture shows a river or a person at rest. Speaker 3 is a photographer of deserts — “vast stretches of sand dunes and the colours of the desert before sunset” — and neither picture shows sand. In a picture-matching listening task, ruling out is faster than matching: find the speaker each picture cannot be, and the rest is arithmetic.
Tip: look hard at the picture before the audio begins. Picture 1 turns on one small detail — the phone on the stick faces the walker, so he is recording himself, not photographing the view. Miss that and Speaker 3, the photographer, becomes tempting.